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The cover illustration shows King Buthramaman, the titular mummy, standing next to a wooden table, with green liquid, books, and scientific equipment on it. The mummy is looking away from his diary, when he's writing in it with his left hand, and is holding a science tube, filled with the green liquid, in his right hand. The mummy is also wearing glasses and has gray hair sticking out from underneath his bandages at the top of his head.

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Blurb

All Wrapped Up and No Place to Go...

While you're on vacation you get a chance to check out an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts and a pretty cool mummy. But when you get to where the mummy is supposed to be all you find is a pile of bandages and a really old diary filled with entries that seem to have been written by Mr. Mummy himself!

If you touch the bandages they’ll wrap themselves around you and poof — you're a mummy. If you decide to use the clues in the diary to find the wrapped wonder you'll find yourself searching through the pyramids in Egypt. Will you be stuck there — forever?

The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!

Plot

You are on vacation in San Fransisco, California, and are extremely bored. With you on your vacation are your parents, your five-year-old sister, Susie, and your fourteen-year-old brother, Derek. One day, your family decide to visit a new skyscraper that is modeled after ancient Egyptian pyramids. As part of the grand opening, there is a special limited edition Ancient Egyptian mummy exhibit, featuring the ancient pharaoh, King Buthramaman. You continue to look around in the exhibit and find a diary that seems to have been written by the corpse. When the security guard isn't looking, you quickly put the ancient book under your shirt so you can read it. However, the diary has some tricks up its sleeve and it illustrates the mummy's plans to come to life during the night.

List of endings

There are fifteen bad endings, three ambiguous endings, and five good endings.

Bad endings

Ending

Paths

The mummy turns you and Derek into mummies, and he takes you to the top of Coit Tower, where he plans to conduct a ritual that will make him come back to life. You push him off the building, destroying him — but this makes you and Derek crumble into dust. The wind blows your dusty remains all the way to Egypt.

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The mummy pulls you into a sarcophagus. You try to yank your arm away from the mummy, but he's so strong that he pulls your arm off.

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You decide to let the mummy take Susie instead of yourself. The mummy calls you a jerk before taking Susie away with him. Susie helps the mummy come back to life, and the two of them end up becoming famous and rich. Ultimately, they refuse to share their fame with you.

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As a mummy, you're examined by doctors, who find a computer chip in your brain, proving that ancient Egyptians invented modern computer technology. You are considered a scientific wonder, and you become famous. After a while, you become tired of this and want to go back to your family. You try to write a note asking the doctors to help you — but your writing comes out as hieroglyphics, so you have no way to communicate.

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As a mummy, you're captured by two museum guards who take you out in a boat, planning to sell you. But because you removed your bandages, your body is rotting fast. The guards throw you overboard into shark-infested waters, and the sharks eat you.

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The museum director keeps you as a mummy and puts you in a storage locker, wanting to make you part of the exhibition.

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Derek finds you in the basement and takes you back to your parents. They're furious that you left Susie alone and went off by yourself without telling anyone. They ground you for a month.

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After ending up in Egypt, you place the mummy's diary back inside his tomb, then use a magical portal to take you back to San Francisco. You take the elevator to get back to your hotel; but when the doors open, the mummy is standing in the doorway. The mummy is angry with you for stealing his diary and entering his sacred burial chamber uninvited. It's implied that he kills you.

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Two criminals steal your camel and leave you stranded in the middle of the desert.

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You drink some blue lemonade, which is drugged. You fall unconscious, and the diary is stolen. Because the story revolves around the diary, you can't go on any further. The book scolds you for drinking something that obviously wasn't safe.

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You don't drink the lemonade. The guy you were talking to turns out to be an FBI agent who's going to accept you onto a special training scheme. You take a celebratory sip of the lemonade — but it is drugged, and knocks you out cold. This means you failed the test to join the FBI, so you don't get to be a secret agent.

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You're being chased by a crocodile, so you throw it some Fruity Bites candy. But the crocodile follows you around to get more, and eventually you run out. It sees you as a fruity bite and it's implied that you are eaten by the crocodile.

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You try to get past a crocodile to water, but you don't make it, and the crocodile eats you.

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You ask movie star Illinois Smith to translate the diary for you, thinking that he'll understand it since he plays an archaeologist. He thinks you're asking for his autograph, so he scrawls his name in the diary, completely covering the hieroglyphics you wanted him to decipher.

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You fall into a tar pit and are boiled alive in hot tar.

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Ambiguous endings

Ending

Paths

The mummy asks you to help restore his youth, so you take him for a spa treatment. This makes him look a few centuries younger. The mummy thanks you for your help and leaves. However, when you get back to the hotel, there is a new diary entry. The mummy thinks you are so wise that he intends to follow you around forever.

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After switching bodies with the mummy, you try to alert your family to what's happened. The mummy (posing as you) tells your parents to call the police. Police officers arrive and assume that your father vandalized the mummy exhibit, so they arrest him. At this point, the mummy laughs evilly, making everyone suspicious of him. Your mother recognizes you as her child. The book assures you that this is a good ending, but it is unclear if you get your original body back.

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You switch bodies with the mummy again, and he is sent back to his sarcophagus. However, later in the day, you discover that the diary contains a new entry written by the mummy, stating that he plans to escape again soon and get revenge.

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Good endings

Ending

Paths

The mummy turns out to be an animatronic that's part of a publicity stunt. You get to join in and play with the controls.

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The mummy uses you and Derek in a ritual for him to return to life. Once he come back to life, he thanks you for your help before disappearing into the city. You and Derek go back to your hotel, but the mummy display is no longer there.

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You know the correct words to bring the mummy back to life. He vanishes and leaves you all his treasure.

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The diary turns out to have been an elaborate prank by Derek. However, the real mummy is missing. You assume that this is a coincidence and enjoy your vacation in San Francisco. When you get home, you read a newspaper headline saying that the mummy was stolen by thieves on the night you visited the exhibit.

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The hieroglyphics in the diary turn out to be reviews for restaurants in Egypt.

The back cover tagline of this book is a play on the saying, "all dressed up and no place to go." The back cover tagline of A Night in Terror Tower also references this saying, and the front cover tagline of Werewolf Skin does as well.

This book suggests that hieroglyphics are ideographic, meaning that each symbol is a picture that depicts an item or an idea, but this is mostly untrue. Hieroglyphics are both phonetic and ideographic, which means that the pictures don't always have to do with the message.

Some endings assert that the reader is male.

Some of the pages have decisions that both lead to a bad endings.

References in other Goosebumps media

In Chillogy, Part II: "Strike Three... You're Doomed!", there is a scene in which Jessica Walters enters Matthew Erikson's room. In this scene, the content of Matthew's bookshelf becomes visible. The shelf is filled with Goosebumps books. The only book that is clearly visible in this scene is Diary of a Mad Mummy.